Chapter 9 Internet Law Social Media And Piracy

Question 1

Undertaking spam, spyware and fraud

Allows FTC to work with foreign agencies investigating and prosecuting

International cooperation
Enforcement beyond borders act

Answer 1

uS SAFE WEB ACT

Question 2

Have significant protection to owners of copyrights in digital information

Makes circumvention of encryption software or any anti-piracy software criminal and civil prosecutable

Limits liability of ISP unless they are aware of aubscribera violation

Answer 2

Digital millennium copyright ACT

Question 3

Amended federal wiretapping law to cover electric forms communication

Applies to communications via social media

Also prohibits prohibits the use/disclosure of any information obtained by the interception

Answer 3

Electronic communications privacy act

ECPA
Excludes communications through devices that an employer provides ( in the ordinary course of business)

Allows employers to avoid liability if employees consent to having electronic communications monitored

Question 4

Prevents cell phone companies and social media networks from divulging private communications to certain entities or individuals

Criminal and civil sanctions for violation

Compensatory damages and punitive possible

Answer 4

Stored communications act

SCA

Question 5

Most common cyber tort

Answer 5

Online defamation
( often hard to find perp.)

Question 6

Is negative speech on Social media protected speech ?

Answer 6

NO

Question 7

No provider or user of interactive computer service shall be treated as publisher of info provided by a third party

Answer 7

CDA

Communications decency act

Question 8

Investigates consumer complaints of privacy violations

Answer 8

FTC

Federal trade commission

Question 9

Can employers normally ask for social media passwords

Answer 9

Yes excluding four states that passed legislation in 2013

Question 10

2003 congress enacted the CAN SPAM act which effectively
Eliminated unsolicited emails

T or F

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Because the can spam act only applies to emails originating in the U.S. congress enacted the —

Answer 11

U.S. Safe web act

Question 12

Loss of ——- occurs when someone uses a domain name similar to yours

Answer 12

Goodwill

Question 13

The act of registering a domain name that is the same as or similar to the trademark of another and then offering to sell that domain name back to the trademark owner

Answer 13

cybersquatting

Question 14

The act of buying names that are similar to well known names exept for slight misspellings

Answer 14

Typo squatting

Question 15

Using another’s trademark in a meta-tag will normally constitute trademark infringement

Answer 15

True

Question 16

A claim of trademark dilution requires proof that consumers will likely be confused by a connection between the unauthorized use and the Mark

Answer 16

False !

Question 17

The sharing of resources amoung multiple computers without nessisailly requiring a central network server

Answer 17

Peer to peer networking

Question 18

A network that can be used by perso. Loaches around the country or globe to share computer files

Answer 18

Distributed network

Question 19

The delivery of users of on demand services from third party servers over a network

Answer 19

Cloud computing

Question 20

Social media posts that contain trademarked images and copyrighted materials typically infringe the intellectual property rights of others

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Social media posts can be used to detect and prosecute criminals, further investigation by federal regulators into illegal activities

T or F

Answer 21

True

Question 22

The business extension the the electronics communications privacy act permits employers to monitor employees personal communications

T or F

Answer 22

False

Question 23

Which act prevents cell phone companies and social

Media networks from divulging private communications the certain entities and individuals

Answer 23

Stored communications act

Question 24

To protect from would be cybersquatting and typo squatters large corps may have to

Answer 24

Register 1000’s of domain names accross the globe

Question 25

To test computer security and conduct encryption research one can circumvent the exeptional software and anti-piracy provisions

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Downloading music onto your computers RAM without authorization is

Answer 26

Copyright infringement

Question 27

Registered domain names are protected as

Answer 27

Trademarks

Question 28

What does the top level part of a domain name indicate

Answer 28

The type of entity that operates the sight

Question 29

Applies to commercial and electronic mail messages
-false return addresses
-misleading or deceptive information
Randomly generated e-mail addresses/ harvesting

Answer 29

CAN-SPAM ACT

Controlling the assault of non-solicited porn and marketing